Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean

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D. Michaelides
Oxbow Books, 30 mai 2014 - 446 pages
There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past Ð from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers presented here cover many aspects medicine in the Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early Byzantine times, bringing together both internationally established specialists on the history of medicine and researchers in the early stages of their career. The contributions are grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. These subject areas are addressed through a combination of wide ranging archaeological and osteological data and the examination and interpretation of philosophical, literary and historiographical texts to provide a comprehensive suite of studies into early practices in this fundamental field of human experience.
 

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Medicine and Archaeology
2
Η Ιατρική στην Αιανή και την Άνω Μακεδονία κατά την Αρχαιότητα
8
Ancient Greek Votives Vases and Stelae Depicting Medical Diseases
24
The Anatomical Exvotos of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus
30
Media
39
Providing Online Access to GraecoRoman Medicine BIUMs Electronic Corpus of Ancient Physicians
40
The Aegean
43
Healers and Medicines in the Mycenaean Greek Texts
44
The Headache Remedies of the PseudoApuleius A Modern Reappraisal
164
Compound Medicines in Antiquity a First Approach
167
Lemnian Earth Alum and Astringency a Fieldbased Approach
183
Ancient Desires to Shape Progeny the Role of Vision and Soul in Greek and Jewish Sources of Late Antiquity
190
Medicine and Spas in the Roman Period the Role of Doctors in Εstablishments with MineralMedicinal Waters
206
Skeletal Remains
217
Health Care and Survival of a Child with Cranial Trauma at Augusta Emerita Mérida Spain
218
A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Study of the 11th15th century AD Human Skeletal Remains from Palaion Demarheion Nicosia Cyprus
223

Health and Healing on Cretan Bronze Age Peak Sanctuaries
54
Medical Knowledge on the Evidence of the Iliad
64
Medical Authors Schools of Medicine
69
Αναζητώντας Ίχνη τουΙπποκρατικού Όρκου
70
Echoing Hippocrates Aspects of Genre Intertextuality in the 5th Century BC
73
Ancient Medicine and Philosophy a Philosophers Perspective
79
The Threshold of Pain the Literary Embodiment of Pain and its Cognates in the Hippocratic Corpus
84
Le Traité de Galien De pulsibus ad tirones Pratique Médicale et Représentation du Corps Humain
92
Γαληνού της Περγάμου Τέχνη Ἰατρική Επιτομή της Ιατρικής και των Τομέων της
105
An Episode in the Historiography of Malaria in the Ancient World
112
Medical Dialogue in the Books on Dietetics in the De medicina Celsus Τaking Αccount of the Patient as a Friend and Individual
118
The Contribution of the 4th Century North African Physician Helvius Vindicianus
122
Surgery
129
Back to Basics Surgeons Knives in the Roman World
130
Alexanders Wounds as a Paradigm for War Surgery
145
Surgery in Byzantium
149
Plastic Surgery of the Face in Byzantine Times
155
Medicaments and Cures
163
1st International CAPP Symposium New Approaches to Archaeological Human remains in Cyprus
233
Introduction to the Cyprus Ancient Population Project CAPP and the First CAPP Symposium
234
My Side of the Mountain Initial Colonisation and Biological Regionalism on Cyprus through the Neolithic and Chalcolithic
240
Antemortem Tooth Loss in Chalcolithic Populations of Cyprus Comparisons between Cemetery and Settlement
252
A Preliminary Look at the Health Status of Chalcolithic Populations Inferences from Linear Enamel Hypoplasias
265
A Preliminary Analysis of Trauma Patterns in Early Christian Cyprus
274
Asklepios and Incubation
283
The Development of the Practice of Incubation in the Ancient World
284
The Authority of Physicians as Dream Interpreters in the Pergamene Asclepieion
291
Asclepius the Divine Healer Asclepius the Divine Physician Epiphanies as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools
297
Ὁ Ξενὼν τοῦ Ἁγίου Δημητρίου Εἰκονογραφικὰ Ζητήματα
308
Πληροφορίες Ιατρικού Ενδιαφέροντος σε Πηγές του Κανονικού Δικαίου
320
Ασθένειες όπως Περιγράφονται σε Βίους Ιαματικών Αγίων και Τρόποι Θεραπείας αυτών
325
Byzantine Arab and Medieval Sources
333
The Role of the Egyptian Sea and Land Routes in the Justinian Plague the Case of Pelusium
334
Du Diagnostic différential aux Thérapies prudentes Le traité de la rougeole et de la variole de Râzî
338
The Ancient Background of Witelos Theory of Vision
350
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